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Installation of Latex in Linux host ?

As you guys already know, what is latex if you don’t. you can have a look in this page. To install the Latex system in Linux host firstly, we simply run the yum search command to search the latex that match our architecture, after that we run the yum install command to install it and this is generally the first method. Second method to install latex in our system is to download the huge ISO file form the tux.org website and install it in Linux host machine

To install the Latex form the repository issue the following command

STEP1: Search Latex in fedora repository

[root@manoj-PC manoj]# yum install latex

STEP-2: Installation Latex

[root@manoj-PC manoj]# yum install texlive texlive-latex

STEP:3 Creating PDF documents using LATEX

To create the first documents in latex open any favorite editors of yours and put the following commands as shown below

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
This is my first program in Latex and I am very happy to having latex system in my workstation
\end{document}

In the above scripts \documentsclass define the size of paper that you going to use and font of the characters, while the type of documents that you are going to write is article.